213 F. Supp. 756 - Van Der Schelling v. U. S. News & World Report, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2003
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on United States v. Wong Kim Ark · Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance · Low Wah Suey v. Backus · Ames v. State of Kansas Johnston Kansas Pac Ry Co · Minor v. Happersett
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000, * * * and is between— * * * (2) citizens of a State, and foreign states or citizens or subjects thereof, * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““My determination of the law, however, can be guided only by what I think it is and not by external motives. ‘ * * * But motives of commiseration, from whatever source they flow, must not mingle in the administration of justice. Judges, in the exercise of their functions, have frequent occasion to exclaim, “durum valde durum,, sed sic lex est.” * * * ’: Penhallow, et al. v. Doane’s, Adm’rs, 3 U.S. (Dali.) 54, 1 L.Ed. 507 (1795).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The framers of the Constitution were undoubtedly keenly aware of the fact that they had lately been subjects and that in other lands men still remained subjects of a sovereign and not citizens of a state.. . . It was only by the inclusion of `subjects' that all aliens, whether they [owed] allegiance to a sovereign monarch or were citizens of a democracy, could sue or be sued in federal courts. 23”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.